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Make dir=auto fall back to the parent's directionality rather than ltr.
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When dir=auto fails to find text with strong directionality (or a <slot>
element) to determine the directionality of the element, it should fall
back to the directionality that it would have inherited from its parent
(or, for <slot>, its shadow host) rather than falling back to ltr.

This requires updating directionality invalidation to account for the
possibility that elements with dir=auto can inherit directionality.

This is based on the proposed behavior described in:
whatwg/html#3699 (comment)
which is in the process of being specified in:
whatwg/html#9554
whatwg/html#9796

This is one of two changes needed to fix the failure of:
external/wpt/html/dom/elements/global-attributes/dir-shadow-41.html
in the still-unlanded WPT PR at
web-platform-tests#29820

Bug: 576815
Change-Id: I9fc7c85875074ad41704ab45ec70c7632c3f8d31
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/4805163
Commit-Queue: David Baron <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Di Zhang <[email protected]>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#1202893}
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dbaron authored and Lightning00Blade committed Dec 11, 2023
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions html/dom/elements/global-attributes/dir_auto-N-EN-ref.html
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<meta name="assert" content="
When dir='auto', the direction is set according to the first strong character
of the text, ignoring neutrals and numbers.
If there is no strong character, as in this test, the direction defaults to LTR." />
If there is no strong character, as in this test, the direction defaults to the parent." />
<style>
input, textarea {
font-size:1em;
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<p dir="ltr">@123!</p>
</div>
<div dir="rtl">
<p dir="ltr">@123!</p>
<p dir="rtl">@123!</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="ref">
<div dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr">@123!</p>
</div>
<div dir="rtl">
<p dir="ltr">@123!</p>
<p dir="rtl">@123!</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions html/dom/elements/global-attributes/dir_auto-N-EN.html
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<meta name="assert" content="
When dir='auto', the direction is set according to the first strong character
of the text, ignoring neutrals and numbers.
If there is no strong character, as in this test, the direction defaults to LTR." />
If there is no strong character, as in this test, the direction defaults to the parent." />
<style>
input, textarea {
font-size:1em;
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<p dir="ltr">@123!</p>
</div>
<div dir="rtl">
<p dir="ltr">@123!</p>
<p dir="rtl">@123!</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
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